Re: (newbie) Installation interruption or impatience

["C. Ridout" <archae13@qwest.net>]

Yes --
                    flag            st        end        blocks
id        type
/dev/sda1        r            0        2666        2026160        83
linux native
/dev/sda2    ur              2666    2733        50920           82
linux swap
/dev/sda3                    0            2733    2077080            5
whole disk

also, I checked the processes and the State on this process is 'D'
63    mkswap -v1 /dev/sda2

C.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: C. Ridout <archae13@qwest.net>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: (newbie) Installation interruption or impatience


> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 01:18:21PM -0600, C. Ridout wrote:
> > Clarification -- the ps -ax command worked -- now I am back to my
original
> > question -- How long do I wait with the cursor flashing for this thing
to
> > finish initalizing the swap partition?  It has been about an hour, so it
may
> > be just a bit of impatience on my part.
> >
> > Additional info:
> > Linux native partition starts at sector 0
> > Linux swap has a -q flag on it (?)
> > whole disk is only other partition
>
> It should return almost immediately. Can you show the partition table
> from fdisk?
>
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